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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

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Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

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Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

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A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

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A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

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Out of difficulties grow miracles.

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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

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A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

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Love and friendship exclude each other.

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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

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Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

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A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

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